Mysterioso said:

it's a shame what that gorilla did to you...

Anxiety said:

I read all of it, actually.

Fauxie said:

i wouldn't blame you if you hadn't!

Anxiety said:

Oh. If I'd known then I wouldn't have.

I'd love to have a beer with you. I think we'd struggle horribly to find common ground. It'd be a hoot!

SirPsycho said:

Today was "NOT" a Good Day! There were too many guerrillas in the mist.

Fauxie said:

i love those excruciatingly special one on one org meetups where you have no idea what to say to each other and it goes nowhere from there. good times.

Anxiety said:

I'd have to bring my brother. He's totally into books, movies, TV and shit and you'd get on famously. I'd sit on a bar stool for 5 hours and sip my beer.

Your extreme good looks intimidates other men.

I think you should be glad you have no male friends. When you get married, your days of hanging out with the guys is limited anyway. And besides if you are happy in your marriage, why are you looking for something that could be wrong? Would you rather be married and at odds with your wife because you have too many friends causing drama?

I think you are just bored, but somebody once told me, "if you go looking for trouble, trouble will find you".

Why not just do different things with your wife? You sound a little insecure about something.

NDRU said:

Yup. My old friendships dwindled away (how could they not?) with me being so far away. Sure, at Xmas I'll meet up with a few people at the pub, but we don't have anything to talk about except to recount old stories, and I only go back to the UK every 2 years. Here in Thailand if we go out Mon and I go together and I'm always the only guy at our table. I prefer the company of women, so it's fine with me, but it does feel odd sometimes. I just have no interest in typical expat guys who hang out in bars and pubs. I know many are probably just like me, but you do get a lot of irritating pricks here and I don't feel any really desire to try to strike up a proper friendship with any of them. I'm quite content with being a bit of a hermit and then just hanging out with the girls a couple of nights a month, but should I be?

Has this been on your mind since chat?

Fauxie said:

oh, that's right, you have no pop culture reference capabilities. well, that's okay. i'm more than just a walking encyclopedia of cult film and camp humor. i can talk about, like, soup. and we can go outside and look for pretty rocks or something. it would be fun! really nice and um


fun

Anxiety said:

I know someone got killed in CSI and it made my wife feel sad. I know there's a bone lady who looks like she never has sex. I've never watched Das Boot though. I like soup.

Fauxie said:

ummm, you are whining because . . . ?
You don't sound unhappy or like you want male friends.
Would you prefer misery and social approval?
As a gay man, I can be alone, I don't need fickle approval

Fauxie said:

i've never seen any of those things. i've never seen an episode of CSI in my life. i own boots but i think one of our cats peed on them and i have to figure out what to do about that before winter starts. see? oh my god, we have a treasure trove of things in common. do you know how to get cat pee off boots?

Anxiety said:

I don't, but neither do you, it seems. We could talk about that! Hey, have you read 'Bear V Shark'? That's a book and I read it. Do you like soup?

Fauxie said:

i've never read that book


but i DO read.

Whiner!!

JustErin said:

Chunky 30-something with nice hair.

Fauxie said:

Dead man.

JustErin said:

Nice 30-something with chunky hair?

Fauxie said:

Just stop.

I'm surprised that you have any friends at all.

Your accent is probably to blame.